[opendtv] Re: HD-DVD Loses Round One
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:37:16 -0500
Jeroen Stessen wrote:
> Huh ? And I suppose that you think that locks on
> the doors reduce the value of a house ? Nonsense.
No, of course. But once you have bought your house, you are free to open
or lock the doors as you please. There is no one telling you when you
can open or close the door, or giving you curfew schedules to live by.
Imagine if the house builder, or the architect, had a remote link with
which he could prevent you from entering your home at certain times. Or
could prevent you from allowing guests of your choosing to enter. That
wouldn't increase the value of the home.
I think the obnoxious part of copy protection schemes is that the wrong
people allow themselves to make illegal decisions. The perfect example
being the way TV stations, willfully or not, determine whether a show
can be time-shift recorded. The courts have said this must be allowed.
End of story. And yet, for some inexplicable reason, TV stations often
don't allow it. And CE manufacturers allow this illegal activity to go
on.
There should absolutely never be a way for a TV station to successfully
transmit "copy never." It's very simple. So why do CE manufacturers,
including Philips, allow this illegal behavior?
It doesn't help much to say, "Oh, sorry, we didn't know we were doing
that." If the system is so easily abused by the stations, it is broken,
IMO. I'm sure you're right when you say a well designed system would be
unintrusive. Such a scheme hasn't been devised yet, as far as I can
tell.
> -- Jeroen, who also uses DVD Decrypter on a regular basis...
Yes, exactly my point.
Bert
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